The Myth of Development: The Non-Viable Economies of the 21st Century (Global Issues Series (New York, N.Y. : 1999).)
Description
This provocative book asks readers to be politically realistic about what is happening to the overwhelming majority of people in Third World countries. With three exceptions (Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan), development has not come. A myriad of people in feeble infant-states have been born--children of self-determination, but not of economic and scientific progress. State-driven, communist, and neo-liberal development models have failed most of these people. The large majority of Third World countries are only mistakenly called "developing." They are not actually in the proce...
ISBN(s)
1856499499, 9781856499491
